Tuesday, 3 March 2009 - Bad News

Today started off well - Drew went to theatre around 9 o'clock so he wasn't too hungry and had myself and all the theatre staff giggling at his antics. He was back in the room before 11.00am and his methatraxate was hung to be administered over the next 24 hours. He is required to pee at least every 4 hours to make sure his kidneys are functioning properly. Today Dr Frank came in around 3.30pm and with Jade (Nurse) took me to the room to tell me the results of Drew's bone marrow aspirant. The fact he took me away from Drew to tell me, I knew it wasn't going to be good news. Unfortunately, it was the worst result we wanted - Drew's results came back as Very High Risk. This means his chemotherapy treatment will be intensified, which at best will make him really sick and at worse...... In four to five months we will have to go to the Randwick Children's hospital in Sydney for Drew to have a bone marrow transplant. It came as a real shock as Drew seemed to be going so well - I think today was even worse than the very first day he was diagnosed.